Defying Gravity Percussion

🌿GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS🌿

What a week!! and joined us for the first concerts in the new .ecu City Campus - and it was phenomenal!

We are all so grateful to have worked and played alongside these guest artists, and would also like to extend this gratitude to the Newman family for making this possible.
And of course the biggest thankyou to the best musical director & organisational powerhouse in the biz, 🪇
Our newer players absolutely smashed it, and in only their third week of study - quite a remarkable effort 🌟🌟
We were also joined by some fantastic students from the Bachelor of Performing Arts course and the Aboriginal Performance course - we loved playing with you, you added another layer to our performance and it is so appreciated.

Photography credit to the wonderful , and videos of the performance are now up on youtube thanks to .eng in case you missed it ;)

It’s time for us to focus on some solo studies now - but we’ll be back with lots more exciting things very soon
- DG🩷

🌿GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS | 13-14 MARCH | McCusker Recital Hall, ECU City

Next week, Defying Gravity is joined by Australian percussion legend Michael Askill for the first ever public concerts in the new WAAPA building! It’s going to a be magical, enchanting, and thrilling way to kick off a new generation of performances in the heart of Perth 🪇🪘

🎟️ https://boxoffice.waapa.ecu.edu.au/Events/Garden-of-Earthly-Delights/Sat-Mar-14-2026-19-00

Defying Gravity christens the McCusker Recital Hall with a joyful and profound show brimming with surprise, delight and wonder. Percussion legend Michael Askill inspires with his extraordinary musical skills and experiences – and Defying Gravity is joined by superb dancers from WAAPA’s Performance Making course to create a super charged, dance-inspired evening of musical entertainment.

Defying Gravity is proudly supported by Alan & Delys Newman

It's that time of year!

DG celebrated our last Secret Santa on the Mount Lawley campus this week!

What a great year, we've had a blast ‼️

See ya in 2026 🤩

Wow! What a huge week of concerts we've just finished up featuring our special guest legends Marcus Perrozzi, Joey Eng, Ruby Delgado and Finn McKibbin. Thankyou to everyone who came out to support, we hope you had as much fun as we did 💥🕺‼️

Shoutout to the Queen herself for being multi talented and taking most of these photos! (Thankyou to Tim for the rest 😝)

RECITAL SEASON!

Miss Chelsea is tomorrow night; get ready for a action packed time!

FRIENDS!!! ROMANS!!! COUNTRYMEN!!!!!

Hello :)

Save the date!! Wednesday the 25th of June is my mid-year recital, where I will be playing a couple of pieces and delving right into the genre of ragtime (and why I love it so much — by the end of it I hope you’ll love it too).

It is a FREE, NON-TICKETED EVENT!!! At WAAPA in MOUNT LAWLEY!!!!

Bring your friends, your family, your pets (maybe not) because all are welcome!

Show starts at 7, can’t wait to see you there :)

Chelsea 🫶

RECITAL SEASON ‼️

Monica is up tomorrow night at 7pm featuring some special guests!

It’s Recital Season!
Come down to WAAPA to see me deliver my mid-year lecture recital; a demonstration of my end of year creative project.
I am joined by two beautifully creative singers, Ella Monaghan and Gene Holliday-Ryder.

RECITAL SEASON 🪇

Martha is up first tonight at 7pm, see you there!

Recital. 10th of June. 7pm. RGA, WAAPA.

Bring your friends, bring your mum, bring your friends' mums. No tickets required ‼️

This is next week!

In this passionate multimedia experience, Pavan Hari creates an enchanting soundworld brimming with energy, magic, mystery and fun.  Defying Gravity also fires up the groove in Frank Zappa's legendary work 'The Black Page', a funky composition so filled with notes that the pages appear black, featuring Ben Cromie on kit!
It's a hyper-fun evening filled with the joy of music.  You'll love it.

https://www.waapa.ecu.edu.au/performances-and-events/performances/2025/defying-gravity-starring-pavan-kumar-hari